Robert Joachim, Information Systems Engineer, MITRE gave a meaty presentation about intranet search at his organization including the different software and approaches they have taken. He talked about how search at MITRE has evoled with using the Google Search Appliance.

Karin Schneider of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals talked about their challenges, their use of federated searching and clustering, as well as how they worked with Vivisimo’s clustering engine.

Gareth Lodge of Voca had some great strategies for sorting through the many search vendors and choosing a solution, or more a partner, for search in your organization.